The insight about incorporating is interesting, and given the facts of the situation, might not be a bad idea.

To your other point:
>The number one thing you should not expect about doing science, at any level, is that it will be cheap, quick or lean. When it comes to science those words mean the same thing as "violating environmental and safety law" or simply doing a piss-poor job.

THIS is what's unfortunate. The point of the article (IMO) was to lament the state of things that law-abiding citizens aren't able to get chemicals once thought reasonable to acquire.

I was hoping that if I ever expatriate, France would have been a good choice.

"Jolla CEO Tomi Pienimäki": Hmm. Jolla must be a corporation. Who the fuck knows where it's from? Startups generate names from a version of scrabble with added "ly" and "io" pieces.

"If Jolla truly is compatible with Android devices...": Wait just a second, if I read this first, I'd think Jolla is a piece of software, not a corporation. Which is it? Now I have to search on the net instead of getting info from the summary like is proper.

"Finnish company Jolla CEO says their MeeGo-based operating system Sailfish will be compatible with Android devices".

Will I have to establish OUT OF BAND trust with every browser (desktop/laptop/mobile/friend/work) I use?

You talk about encryption for all this, but neglect trust. You complain about not being able to trust the root CA's, but who can you trust? When I connect to

EFF
Slashdot
Reddit
Email provider
Bank1
Bank2
Secret Message Board

How do I establish trust? Will I have to establish trust with every browser (desktop/laptop/mobile/friend/work) I use?

Go ahead, prove yourself correct.

and

don't correlate.

Because putting ourselves in those scenarios can change the observable reactions our body has to situations. I am of the "create manned missions" because as so many people have said, it DOES inspire people (if we could believe in the US government not to cancel the program 25% of the way through every time), and because it IS a vital step in humanity's survival in the long term.

Modern tomatoes suck.

We've also moved to *gasp* dynamic content and styles and actions that require JS to load.

They couldn't do their absolute worst case scenario if they wanted to! ...for about another 5 years until storage drives jump an order of magnitude.

>His concern, ostensibly, is that someone might be petty enough not to see his movie simply because he spent years lobbying for laws that treated certain people as less than human.

Really? Less than human? Because you get taxed differently and don't have visitation rights at a hospital? It's an insult to victims of real humanitarian crises like genocide and slavery to talk about this relative first world problem in such terms.

Why is "man" in quotes?

I'd be interested in hearing more about how you and your like-minded friends think the world would work without borders defining the legal codes to which a person is expected to adhere at any time.

If anything, I've pondered that internet routing should be changed to strongly prefer staying within a particular country's borders if the source and destination are in the same jurisdiction. Of course, if one wants to route through the world, tor/proxys are easy as pie, but the bulk of normal, direct traffic could be routed this way.

>Why worry about what, when you can easily control how often. Limit each participant to some amount.

How do you regulate that? By making a closed hardware platform?

I bet you'd find most amateur radio ops are content with the current ruleset.

Let me also say that when the power goes out for a few weeks, HAM is the only comms still operating. It's a great skill for learning RF and electronics basics while doing something useful.

You sure about that? You're probably right, given your handle, but I thought the logic behind barring 'encrypted' radio was to be able to discern garble and static from users.